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By the way, the Focke Wulf Triebflugel was called FW.354.

...so as not to hijack the British thread! Let's start with a subject to which I hope to be able to make a meager contribution to: design constraints and philosophy behind design decisions. Hermione Giffard's PhD thesis and hopefully soon-to-be book "The Development and Production of Turbojet...

The MBI book on the Heinkel He 162 presents several contenders in the "Volksjäger" competition, including the Blohm & Voss P 211. Attached below are three-view arrangements of the two proposals described above.

In the autumn of 1944, Reichsmarschall Göring requested that Junkers, Arado and Messerschmitt design and produce very long range high speed bombers capable of carrying 4-ton bomb payloads. The goal was to be able to attack distant maritime convoys and strategic targets in both the U.S. and the...

Apparently there was an intermeshing-rotor helicopter designed by Otto Reder in 1943. Does anyone know more about it? http://stingraysrotorforum.activeboard.com/t48686235/otto-reder-helicopter/

Another interesting little-known Piaggio project. The P. 127 was started during wartime as possible long range transport aircraft especially for civil role (in that sense it could be a concurrent of both CANT Z-511 and BZ 308). The P.127C was a huge aircraft (wingspan: 56m, max weight: 56,000...

Hi, after finally crossing my sources I present you guys a Heinkel project to embark in the "Graf Zeppelin" aircraft carrier. The well-known sesquiplane He114 was subject to an advanced design featuring retractable wheels (I don`t know about the tail one) and a bigger (full span?) lower wing...

In 1945 Heinkel began development of a bomber which was propelled by four jet engines. This bomber has the layout of the later Victor bomber used by the RAF, a delta wing with a T shaped tail. This bomber was capable to reach long distance targets I believe even targets into the US. I'm...

http://gizmodo.com/5524604/real-goddamn-flying-nazi-soldiers-with-jet-packs ??? Hurm.

Dornier Do 214 Source: http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailView.nhn?blogId=naljava69&logNo=60104025964&categoryNo=51&parentCategoryNo=

I have this poor scan of the Blohm und Voss P.200 Transocean seaplane. Does anyone know if a cleaner version of this cutway exists in any published books or articles? I'd like to find a cleaner version. Thanx in advance, Gary

Experimental heavy tank having to replace P.26/40. If an pre-order of 150 specimens were contracted, Armistice was signed without only prototype is finished. The models of P.43 showed its affiliation with P.26/40 without any doubt. The tank weighed approximately 30 tons, was propelled by an...

Operation Ikarus on wwii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ikarus Anyone know more about this ?

Did the XT-7 "Rotkappchen" and M42 see action in WW2? The XT-7 is mounted on a small trailer which doubles as the launch platform. The M42 (86mm rocket) is mounted on a stand and the base plate seems to be bolted to the ground. The M42 also has a launch tube and sighting mechanism similar to a...

Sorry for asking about another probably fake German late-war project. At http://henk.fox3000.com/panther.htm there are some pictures showing a model of the "Panther APC". Here is one of them: Do you have any idea if it is a fake (as I suspect) or indeed the Germans thought of such a vehicle...

Hi dear members of this forum many is known about German projects about airliners like the FW-300 and Junkers designs for long range aircraft ,and offcourse the Dornier flyboat designs. But my question is did the Japanese also have projects of their own,I cant imagine they didn't. Because they...

Was those projects real or fake ?. http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4101

Hi everybody Here the ultra-heavy O-I tank http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/japan/japan-exp.html There was also another japanese giant ? The 100 ton tank "Mi-To" ? http://uk.geocities.com/sadakichi09/army/IJAV.htm Maybe someone knows more ? Here the Type 5 Chi-Ri...

Hi everybody Long time ago I read a article about german saucers. The article was published in the german magazine "Luftfahrt History Nr.14." It was a preview article for the next issue. Sadly, they did not publish this next issue...

Hi, you guys may want to throw eggs at me for this one!. I am aware of the many german helicopter projects that went on during the years of the third reich..but a friend of mine insists there was an "attack helicopter" designed near the closing stages of the war- not like a...